Canet-en-Roussillon
Canet-en-Roussillon
Canet de Rosselló / Canet de Rosselhon | |
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![]() Aerial view of the port and the sea front at Canet-en-Roussillon | |
Coordinates: 42°42′24″N 3°00′28″E / 42.7067°N 3.0078°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Occitania |
Department | Pyrénées-Orientales |
Arrondissement | Perpignan |
Canton | La Côte Sableuse |
Intercommunality | Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Stéphane Loda[1] |
Area 1 | 30.22 km2 (11.67 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | 12,598 |
• Density | 420/km2 (1,100/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 66037 /66140 |
Elevation | 0–37 m (0–121 ft) (avg. 6 m or 20 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Canet-en-Roussillon (French pronunciation: [kane ɑ̃ ʁusijɔ̃]; Catalan: Canet de Rosselló, [kəˈnɛt ˈde rusəˈʎo]; Occitan: Canet de Rosselhon, [kaˈnet de ruseˈʎu]) is a commune and town in the French department of the Pyrénées-Orientales, administrative region of Occitania.[3]
Geography
[edit]Canet-en-Roussillon is located in the canton of La Côte Sableuse and in the arrondissement of Perpignan, 9.4 km (5.8 mi) to the east of Perpignan.
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History
[edit]The city walls were destroyed in the 19th century.
With the development of sea bathing, the first beach settlement for bathers of the coast of Pyrénées-Orientales was created by Louise Lombard in 1849.[4] As early as 1854 municipal laws were established regulating types of bathing suits and separating sea bathing zones for men and women.[5]
Government and politics
[edit]Mayors
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Mayor[6] | Term start | Term end | Party | |
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Joseph Cassanyes | 1790 | 1792 | ||
Jacques Bonet | 1792 | 1795 | ||
Jacques Cassanyes | 1796 | 1797 | ||
Julien Canal | 1798 | 1798 | ||
Jacques Cassanyes | 1799 | 1800 | ||
Jacques Bonet | 1800 | 1813 | ||
Joseph Cassanyes | February 1813 | 28 October 1814 | ||
Saturnin Cargoles | 1814 | 1826 | ||
Antoine Gaux | 1826 | 1831 | ||
Joseph Cassanyes Jr. | 1831 | 1848 | ||
Julien Canal Jr. | March 1848 | June 1848 | Temporary Mayor | |
Pierre Roger | June 1848 | September 1848 | Temporary Mayor | |
Joseph Cassanyes | September 1848 | August 1851 | ||
Julien Canal | August 1851 | December 1851 | Temporary Mayor | |
Julien Canal | 1851 | 1865 | ||
Jean Bartissol | 1865 | September 1870 | ||
Michel Pages | September 1870 | December 1870 | ||
Joseph Berga | 1870 | 1874 | ||
Côme Roger | 1874 | 1881 | ||
Jean Lafon | 1881 | 1890 | ||
Jacques Xamma | 1891 | 1892 | ||
Henri Castany | 1892 | 1904 | ||
Basile Darbon | 1904 | May 1912 | ||
Isidore Boutet[7] | May 1912 | 1918 | ||
François Alies[8] | 1918 | 1919 | ||
Joseph Lafon | 1920 | 1925 | ||
Jacques Xamma | 1925 | 1930 | ||
Joseph Lafon | 1929 | 1930 | ||
Gabriel Henric | 1930 | 1941 | ||
Désiré Riu | 1941 | 1943 | ||
Pierre Fourcade | 1943 | 1944 | ||
Gabriel Henric | 1944 | 1947 | ||
Joseph Pagès | 1947 | 1950 | ||
François Moudat | 1950 | 1965 | ||
Christian Brignieu | 1965 | 1966 | ||
François Moudat | 1966 | 1971 | ||
Jacques Coupet | 1971 | 1989 | ||
Arlette Franco | 1989 | 2010 | UMP | |
Bernard Dupont | 2010 | 2020 | UMP | |
Stéphane Loda | 2020 | incumbent | DVD |
International relations
[edit]Canet-en-Roussillon is twinned with:
Population
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Source: EHESS[9] and INSEE (1968-2017)[10] |
Sites of interest
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Canet-en-Roussillon_-_Front_de_mer_Ave_C%C3%B4te_Vermeille.jpg/220px-Canet-en-Roussillon_-_Front_de_mer_Ave_C%C3%B4te_Vermeille.jpg)
- The medieval castle ;
- The Saint-James church ;
- The Château de l'Esparrou, a 19th c. manor ;
- The old village ;
- The sea front.
Notable people
[edit]- Arlette Franco (1939-2010), mayor of Canet-en-Roussillon, deputy to the National Assembly of France and vice-president of the French Swimming Federation.
- Marc Fontan (1956-), motorcycle road racer born in Canet-en-Roussillon.
See also
[edit]- Communes of the Pyrénées-Orientales department
- Gare de Perpignan murders - a victim was found in Canet-en-Roussillon.
- XL Airways Germany Flight 888T - an air crash that happened 7 kilometers from the commune.
References
[edit]- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ INSEE commune file
- ^ Birkui, Françoise (2013). Le Matrimoine catalan : 66 femmes [Catalan matrimony : 66 women] (in French). Canet-en-Roussillon: Trabucaïre. ISBN 978-2-84974-166-5.
- ^ Cárdenas, Fabricio (2014). 66 petites histoires du Pays Catalan [66 Little Stories of Catalan Country] (in French). Perpignan: Ultima Necat. ISBN 978-2-36771-006-8. OCLC 893847466.
- ^ MairesGenWeb
- ^ Cardenas, Fabricio (29 August 2014). "Nomination du maire en 1912". Archives de Canet. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
- ^ Cardenas, Fabricio (24 March 2015). "Nomination de l'adjoint au maire en 1912". Archives de Canet. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Canet-en-Roussillon, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
External links
[edit]Media related to Canet-en-Roussillon at Wikimedia Commons